Solomon wallach



S. WALLACE.

(Mode-31.)

- SHIRT.

Patented May 15, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SOLOMON WALLAOH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 277,524, dated May 15,1883.

A Application filed August 21, 1882. (ModeL) .T 0 all whom it mayconcern:

Be it known that I, SoLoMoN WALLAon, of New York city, county and Stateof New York, have invented an Improved Reversible Shirt, of which thefollowing is a specification.

Figure l is a face new of my improved shirt when used as abicycle-shirt. Fig. 2 is a face view of the same shirt when reversed.Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views of a modified construction of the shirt.Fig. 5 is a horizontal section of the bosom-piece of the shirt shown inFig. 1, and Fig. 6 a horizontal sec tion of the bosom-piece of the shirtshown in may require; and the invention consists in providing the bosom,which is open in front, and has a means of being fastened in front, withan additional rear flap, which laps over the entire back of the bosom,and which, when brought to the front, will constitute a second orfatigue bosom.

In the drawings, the letter A represents the body of the shirt, which inFig. 1 appears to be what is'called a bicycle-shirtnamely, a shirt withopen bosom and laced in front. This lacing a is shown in Fig. 5, tounite the two parts I) and d of the bosom; but back of this lacing isstitched to the part b a flap, e, which extends partly over the part dof the bosom. Now, when the shirt is to be reversed, it is turned andthe flap e brought to the front, as in Fig. 2, and'then the fia-p e isbuttoned to buttons 9, that project from the part d through button-holesin the flap e, and will then pro-' duce a single-breasted shirt-bosom ofthe usual appearance. (See Fig. 2. The owner of the shirt can either usethe same so as to expose the bicycle-bosom or the single-breasted bosom,an 1 thus, if one style is supposed to be the dress-bosom, and the othera fatigue-bosom, he can use the same shirtfor the two purposes.

In the modification which is shown in Figs. 3, 4:, and 6 all the partsare retained in the relative position which has been shown and describedwith reference to Figs. 1,. 2, and 5, only the tlap c is made a littlewider and carries buttons h where itjoinsthe part b of the shirt, sothat when buttoned to the buttons g this flap c produces adouble-breasted shirtbosom. (See Fig. 4.)

It will be seen from the position of the button-holes in the flaps e inFigs. 5 and 6 that when the garment is worn with the flap on the outerside the edges of the parts I) d are drawn together. For a looser fitthe shirt is reversed and the lacing let out.

I claim-- In a shirt, the combination of the bosom parts I) d with thebuttons g, secured to one side of the part (I, and with the flap e,having button-holes and secured on the same side of the shirt to thepart b, and with the cord a, substantially as herein shown anddescribed.

SOLOMON WALLAOH.

Witnesses:

GUSTAV SGHNEPPE, A. V. BRIEsEN.

